By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - More than 300 fencers have asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and fencing's global federati.
More than 300 active and former fencers have called on Olympic chief Thomas Bach to uphold the ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes when he and the decision-making board of the International Olympic Committee meet on Tuesday.
The content originally appeared on: CNN CNN More than 300 active and former fencers have written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urging the .
Olympic chiefs on Tuesday recommended the return to competition of Russian and Belarusian athletes as individual neutrals, but refused to give a timeline on their potential participation at next year's Paris Olympics.